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title: Adoption is when a child whose birth parents can't bring them up joi… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: Adoption is when a child whose birth parents can't bring them up joins a new family for good. Who acts: Adoption, birth parents, child. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adoption, sentence 0

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Adoption is when a child whose birth parents can't bring them up joins a new family for good.

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**Who acts:** Adoption, birth parents, child · **What happens:** be, not bring up, join · **To what, where:** them, new family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adoption, birth parents, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:0
# text = Adoption is when a child whose birth parents can't bring them up joins a new family for good.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 522-adoption.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Adoption |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bring up** | can | birth parents | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **join** | present | a child | a new family |  |  |  | for good | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:0`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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